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Thread started 11/16/15 9:03pm

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If Mike recorded Jermaine's material, circa 1978-1982?

Jermaine Jackson had some of the (IMO) most underrated R&B tunes in that era. Some songs were huge hits "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy" and "Let's Get Serious." Others, mediocre showings on the charts like “Castles of Sands” and “You Like Me, Don’t You” but were much better than their showings.

I have compiled a list of I think some of his more stronger material from that time period. If his brother Michael had the opportunity to record these songs, are they hits?

Hate the man all you want, but you can’t deny this dude could put a tune together.











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Reply #1 posted 11/17/15 6:11am

alphastreet

Yeah why not
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Reply #2 posted 11/17/15 6:48am

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Isn't there a sticky for these pointless endless
Jackson family claptrap?
Lock this thread! sad
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Reply #3 posted 11/17/15 7:03am

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I am still waiting for the George Michael/Michael Jackson mashup album called Michael Michael mainly for that sinister mashup of "Father Figure" and "In The Closet". Scandalous.

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Would The Jacksons stuff of the same time period and Off The Wall have been hits if they were released on Motown instead of Epic? Labels make a difference. None of them would have been big hits if they were on Malaco. Those records wouldn't have been made in the 1st place as Malaco wouldn't have been able to afford Quincy Jones or any of the session guys who played on Jermaine's or the others records.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #5 posted 11/17/15 9:23am

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The question enters my mind more like... what if Jermaine had recorded with The Jacksons after leaving Motown. I really wish that had happened.

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Reply #6 posted 11/17/15 11:20am

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MickyDolenz said:

Would The Jacksons stuff of the same time period and Off The Wall have been hits if they were released on Motown instead of Epic? Labels make a difference. None of them would have been big hits if they were on Malaco. Those records wouldn't have been made in the 1st place as Malaco wouldn't have been able to afford Quincy Jones or any of the session guys who played on Jermaine's or the others records.



Destiny and triumph rival off the wall at times IMO. I used to listen to them say more than otw at one point, they are all just that brilliant, like a trilogy
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Reply #7 posted 11/17/15 11:09pm

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Please use the MJ sticky. lock reported thread.

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